Defining and monitoring service level agreements for dynamic e-business

Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Systems Administration, LISA 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 189-203

  Keller, Alexander ^a   Ludwig, Heiko ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SALES; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; WEBSITES;

APPLICATION SERVICES; BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; EXTENSIBLE LANGUAGES; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION; WEB SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT; WEB SERVICES ARCHITECTURE;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 33749079424     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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